I undertook a large project to convert all my CD's and disks to ADF and ISO/CCD a while ago so I can access them from hard disk without fumbling around drawers looking for disks. I realise many people may already know about this feature, but I think it is worth mentioning anyway. It allows you to mount virtual CD (ISO, CCD) images and Amiga ADF and DMS disks on the Amiga, and access the contents of the disks as though you had the CD or disk physically.
I formatted them FFS under AmigaDos 1.3.I wanted to show you DiskImage GUI, a very useful utility included standard with AmigaOS 4.1.5 on the AmigaOne X1000. blank Amiga 160MB FFS disk image (Zipped HDF).blank Amiga 80MB FFS disk image (Zipped HDF).Here are a couple I formatted under WinUAE, both blank. The biggest problem I have is getting hard disk image, even blank ones. While I did have Amigaos 2.04 (can’t remember if they’d dropped the D by then), it wasn’t the main focus of my interest by then. I want to emulate two machines the A500 I had for all my cringe-worthy magazine writing running Workbench 1.3, and a fast thing maxed out with all the processors and RAM I never had, probably running 3.1.
I really wonder who is buying the PowerPC based, vastly overpriced new hardware? For now, I’m relying on good old-fashioned torrent sites for my data. The Amiga games market (which was the market) basically collapsed with Commodore in 1994. It seems that the current owners of the Amiga name ( this week, at least) still cling on to the old IP as if it has real value.
I would have expected all the old disk images to be readily available for download. On Linux, it’s plain and stable, and I happen to have an old Thinkpad going spare I can dedicate to emulation. On Mac, E-UAE is really not worth the bother kinda okay – it doesn’t want to emulate anything above a 68000, and falls over quite often but has decent sound. Quality is variable – on Windows, WinUAE is very comprehensive, even making grink-gronk noises as the floppy spins. Variants of UAE (which came with an Amiga Forever CD set I bought in 1997 or so) rule the roost. I want to run that code, swim with the Fish disks, and generally muck about with what was my life back then.Įmulation is interesting. I’m trying to get running an Amiga again, to see if I can remember what was rocking my computer world twenty years ago.
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